From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 22 20:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19358 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19319 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 03:37:04 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id UAA19642; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:29:36 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id UAA16106; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:28:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Joey Garcia cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980422194222.006a9b80@pacificnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Joey Garcia wrote: > Hmmm...I seem to be rambling a bit. Basically, what I wanted to know is > what path are we (the freebsd community) going to take FreeBSD. Are we > going to take the Server path, the Workstation path, or both? I'd prefer > both of course. We've all seen that FreeBSD is a phenomenal server, let's > show (let prospective users know and all) that it can be a kick butt > Workstation as well. But how are we gonna do that? Any ideas? Flick a couple switches in inetd.conf and voila! Instant workstation. You and I all know that FreeBSD can be whatever we make it by configuration. The less experienced user may not know this. I say that the key to doing all of these things (workstation, lite versions etc) is providing the correct level of documentation for that audience. It would be easier to put a link on the website like this... To make your OS a workstation follow these simple instructions. .... than it would be to develop a new distribution out of the existing distribution. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message